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ORGANISERS of the annual oration at Karl Marx’s grave hailed it as “fantastically successful event” yesterday as crowds marked the 200th year of his birth.
Cuban ambassador Teresita Vicente Sotolongo delivered the oration, joining a list of famous names including late Labour MP Tony Benn and Venezuelan ambassador Rocio Maneiro.
Communist Party of Britain general secretary Rob Griffiths told the Star the event attracted “probably the biggest turnout in recent years.”
KEVAN NELSON reports back from a delegation to the epic celebrations for the anniversary of Vietnam’s 1945 revolution, where British communists found a thriving, prosperous socialist country, brimming with ambition and well-earned national pride
From hunting rare pamphlets at book sales to online panels and courses on trade unionism and class politics, the MML continues connecting archive treasures with the movements fighting for a better world, writes director MEIRIAN JUMP
LYNNE WALSH reports from last weekend’s moving remembrance of the International Brigades in London’s Jubilee Gardens where anti-fascists gathered to hear how even in the darkest of times we can build a vision of a better tomorrow, as the Brigaders fought to do 89 years ago
MOLLIE BROWN reports on this year’s festival in honour of the ‘seven men of Jarrow’ deported to Australia for union activity 193 years ago